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Main prize of the Europa Nostra Award (14.06.2010)

Last Thursday, the Neues Museum der Museumsinsel Berlin was honoured with one of the main prizes of the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award". The six "Grand Prix Laureates" were selected from a total of 139 projects submitted from 26 European countries. The jury was imp

Culture at the Petersburg Dialogue under the direction of Hermann Parzinger (19.03.2010)

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will be the new Co-Chairman of the Culture Working Group of the Petersburg Dialogue together with Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He was elected to this office as the successor to Klaus

Works of "Degenerate Art" believed lost recovered from Berlin bomb rubble (08.11.2010)

During excavations in the historic centre of Berlin, archaeologists from the state of Berlin have found eleven sculptures that were confiscated from German museums in 1937 as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. They are bronzes by Edwin Scharff, Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Gustav Hei

Whereabouts of two faience vases in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts secured (27.10.2010)

Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have

Antique helmet court case (09.12.2010)

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hereby clarifies the following with regard to the proceedings being dealt with today at the Berlin Administrative Court for the return of an antique helmet: The foundation is keeping the antique helmet in its depot purely as an administrative aid for the pub

Sculpture in the National Gallery that was thought to have been lost during the war is found again (05.12.2011)

A 19th-century sculpture that had been thought lost since the end of the war has been found on the grounds of the American Academy in Berlin-Wannsee. It is owned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and is part of the collection of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. In 2

Students from the Cologne and Hanover music academies win the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's classical music competition (15.01.2011)

The 2011 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition was won by soprano Anna Lucia Richter from the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the vocal category. In the brass ensemble category, this year's prize went to the "Schwerpunkt" quintet from the Hanover University of Music and Theatre. Around si

Change in the office of Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.12.2010)

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously elected Prof Dr Günther Schauerte as the new Vice-President of the SPK. Mr Schauerte is currently Deputy Director General of the National Museums in Berlin -

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition decided - Prize goes to cello-piano duo from the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts (17.01.2010)

Tonight, the prize-winning duo Christine Rauh (cello) and Johannes Nies (piano) from the Hanover University of Music and Theatre, who won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, will present themselves to the audience in the concert hall of the Berlin University of the Arts. Germany's o

New museum honoured with European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage (16.04.2010)

The prestigious "Europa Nostra Award", which recognises outstanding achievements in the field of restoration, research and education, will be presented to the Neues Museum this year. The building on Berlin's Museum Island has been restored according to plans by David Chipperfield Architects and Juli

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